Looted Picasso Surfaces in Iraq

If you wait long enough, it’s amazing what eventually turns up. After nearly 20 years, a stole Picasso painting comes to light:

Iraqi authorities have recovered an extremely valuable painting by Pablo Picasso that was stolen from the Kuwaiti National Museum during Iraq’s military invasion in 1990, Radio Free Iraq (RFI) reports. A member of a group sent to Hillah, Iraq, by the Prime Minister’s Office presented the painting to the public on August 25. He told RFI that a person who attempted to sell the painting for $450,000 was arrested north of Hillah recently.

The arrested person later told police that his relative served in Kuwait during the Iraqi invasion in 1990 and gave him the painting to keep. The painting bears a stamp of the Kuwaiti National Museum and its authenticity was confirmed by an expert from the Iraqi Culture Ministry. The painting is valued at several million dollars.